Category: Emmanuel Taiwo, M.Sc.

Emmanuel Taiwo, M.Sc.
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  • Aula Convening Guideline 2025 Ed.

    Aula Convening Guideline 2025 Ed.

    The Aula Convening Guidelines, 2025 ed.

    These Aula Convening Guidelines are for people working on tech governance and AI in society, these are 6 guidelines for convening communities for legitimate collective decision-making on how AI is implemented in society.

    Since our founding in 2023, Aula Fellows have hosted and participated in 100s of conversations in more than 30 countries and regions on AI. We have spoken with people who have a variety of needs, spanning through Learning AI, Living with AI, Working with AI, and Shaping AI.

    We have worked through 3 project phases, to develop these guidelines, from the common elements that make for conversations in which communities make decisions about AI. Our goal is not a new type of consultation, but rather to see to it that community convenings are conductive to collective decision making on AI.

    In 2026 we will be reaching out to partner organizations to continue to refine these guidelines and to bring them to more groups of people.

    They are complete and available now under a Creative Commons license, in this V.01, 2025 Edition.

    Link to the PDF.

  • Aula Fellow Emmanuel Taiwo named a Vanier Scholar

    Aula Fellow Emmanuel Taiwo named a Vanier Scholar

    We are proud to announce that Aula Fellow Emmanuel Taiwo has been named a recipient of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Award for 2025.

    From their site: “The Vanier award recognizes PhD students at Canadian universities who demonstrate excellence across three key areas, namely, leadership, academic performance and research potential. Widely regarded as one of the most prestigious scholarship awards at the doctoral level, Vanier Scholars are seen as some of the best of the best doctoral researchers in Canada.”

    IMPACT Lab doctoral candidate named recipient of prestigious Vanier Scholarship Award!

  • Community energy justice: A review of origins, convergence, and a research agenda

    Community energy justice: A review of origins, convergence, and a research agenda

    The transition to zero‑carbon sustainable energy systems is critical and must take an equity-oriented approach to avoid exacerbating societal injustices. We explore the concept of “community” and its potential as a viable and effective tool for studying, understanding, and fostering justice and equity in energy transitions. This paper outlines community energy justice as an area of scholarship emerging through convergence around three key concepts: community, energy transition, and justice. Using a narrative literature review approach, we unpack the origins of community energy justice research, rooted in two scholarship pillars of energy justice and community energy. We outline four driving forces and two key approaches leading to convergence between both areas of scholarship. Encompassing energy transition initiatives that incorporate both justice and community themes, we find that the overarching objective …

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  • Collision Toronto: Booth

    Collision Toronto: Booth

    Emmanuel Taiwo and Tammy Mackenzie represented the Aula Fellowship in the social good start-up stage. Thank you, Collision Toronto, for this excellent experience with old and new friends, working for good AI together in excellent company. Thanks also to Aula Fellow Rubaina Khan, Victoria Kuketz, and Marisa Eleuterio, for technical support throughout!

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  • Collision Toronto: Presentation

    Collision Toronto: Presentation

    Presented the Aula Fellowship from the Non-Profits Stage. Thank you, Victoria!

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  • Global environmental health impacts of rare earth metals: Insights for research and policy making in Africa

    Global environmental health impacts of rare earth metals: Insights for research and policy making in Africa

    The rise of globalization and industrialization has driven the demand for rare earth metals (REMs). These metals are widely used in various sectors of the global economy with various applications in medicine, renewable energy, electronics, agriculture, and the military. REMs are likely to remain an important part of our global future, and, as production increases, areas contaminated by REMs are expected to expand over the coming decades. Thus, triggering significant adverse environmental, animal, and human health impacts. Despite increased attention on REMs outside China in recent years, there are limited studies exploring REM production, deposits, and associated health impacts in the African context. Proper mine management, adequate safety protocols, sustainable processing methods, and waste handling systems have been identified and proposed globally; however, the nature and scale of implementing these management protocols on the African continent have been less clear. Therefore, planetary health-centered solutions are urgently needed to be undertaken by researchers, policy makers, and non-governmental actors in Africa and across the globe. This is with the overarching aim of ensuring eco-friendly alternatives and public health consciousness on REM exploitations and hazards for future generations to come.

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